My Hollywood Blvd. Stroll

I was  off yesterday and was been out almost all day.

Firstly, I went to attend the wound management class for eight long hours sponsored by the Medline Company which supplies all the wound care products of the hospital I worked with.

The class started at 7:30 am and finished at 3:30 pm. It was a very long day of interesting lecture about wound management and a very interactive class. The educator from Medline was a very prepared and knowledgeable lecturer. She knows her topic well and delved it adroitly and expertly. She gave a very thorough explanation and examples for her lecture and focused on her class objectives closely without even boring her audience. I really learned a lot from her lectures.

I got four hours of continuing education units (CEUs) for this class  and a certificate at the end of the class. Just in time for the renewal of my nursing license in November.

After the class I drove home and napped for a while. When I woke up, I felt so bored so I decided to go to Hollywood-Highland Mall to buy some gym shorts that I needed for my exercise and cardio routines at the gym.

After obtaining the gym shorts that I needed I brought it to my car and left it there in the trunk, then I grabbed my portable digital camera and decided to take a stroll around the famous Hollywood Boulevard and see the celebrity's star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame."

I also visited the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater, Madame Taussad's Wax Museum, El Capitan Theater, and Kodak Theater. I also took some liberty of snapping several pictures for all of them.

On the boulevard various tourists and revelers were being seen as well as the locals enjoying the different sites the boulevard can offer, including the ones I mentioned and enumerated earlier.

As I scanned the laminated celebrity stars on the well-known "Hollywood Walk of Fame" I happily located some of my favorite celebrity's star and snapped some pictures of it.

I also saw Michael Jackson's star with a wreath and flowers on it but I was astonished to see Patrick Swayze's star with sunflower and carnations placed on it and a crew of television news team filming near by. I was shocked to know when I got home that he passed away today. Rest-in-Peace Patrick......

After the brief stroll I went to the open piazza of the Hollywood-Highland Mall where there was a stringed instrument contest sponsored by Samsung and was been hosted by Jimmy Kimmel , the host of the Late Night Program at the ABC-TV station, who hosted his same named show.

I was just passing by and checking out what was happening there then I decided to just watch a movie at Mann's 6 Chinese Theater. So I lined up at the box office booth and bought a ticket for a movie.

I decided to watch the movie District 9, which pertains to a myriad of prawny-looking aliens who got stranded on earth because their mother ship got stalled and ran out of fuel. The aliens stayed on earth for so many years causing fear and havoc to the life of the citizens of Johannesburg, South Africa and demanded equal rights with the humans, but instead were being maltreated and abused, and were transferred to a very deplorable and despicable place called District 9, hence the title.

The main character was a never been recognized South African actor who performed his role expertly and superbly. He carried his role real well and his acting was very believable. It was actually a very interesting yet very sketchy movie.

The ending part put me on the edge of my seat because I know it  will probably be concluded on the next sequel. But it made me hang-on there thinking and assuming deeply for a long time what will gonna happen next. We'll just see it next time, then.

When I got out of the theater it was already 10 pm. The boulevard was still teeming with tourists and locals alike. There's always life everywhere, and the bright-lighted street was always alive with the fast motion of the traffic, the flickering and the dancing of the neon signs, and the rapid turn-over and crossing of the people at the intersections.

It was an interesting day for me today, starting with my early morning wound management class, followed by my Hollywood Boulevard stroll, and culminated by my watching of the District 9 movie.

Life is always interesting and spontaneous. It doesn't stop to amaze and surprise me.